| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5244685 |
System and method for producing applesauce |
September 14, 1993 |
| An apparatus and method for producing applesauce utilizing unpeeled apples that have been cored or reamed on the stem and blossom ends. The apples are divided into portions and pumped into a heater which raises the temperature of the portions of the apple to approximately 71.degree.- |
| 5181459 |
Fruit indent removal device |
January 26, 1993 |
| A device removing the stem and blossom portions of fruit utilizing a support for the fruit which is capable of orienting the stem or the blossom portion of the fruit in an upright position. The support permits access to either the stem or blossom portion of the fruit and is spanned b |
| 4288461 |
Method of selective pitting for fruits of the drupe type |
September 8, 1981 |
| Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type, in which fruit having sound pits are torque pitted and fruit having split pits are spoon pitted. A coring spoon is spaced from the pit gripping portion of the fruit bisecting blades with spoon pitting being acco |
| 4262025 |
Method for selective pitting of fruits of the drupe type |
April 14, 1981 |
| A method is described for pitting fruit of the drupe type in a cyclical manner in a processing operation involving a series of processing steps in which fruit having sound pit is torque pitted and fruit having a split pit is spoon pitted. In the method the presence or absence of a fruit |
| 4213382 |
Selective pitter for fruits of the drupe type |
July 22, 1980 |
| Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type, in which fruit having sound pits are torque pitted and fruit having split pits are spoon pitted. A coring spoon is spaced from the pit gripping portion of the fruit bisecting blades with spoon pitting being acco |
| 4206697 |
Method and apparatus for selective pitting of fruits of the drupe type |
June 10, 1980 |
| Apparatus and methods are described for pitting fruit of the drupe type in a cyclical manner in a processing operation involving a series of processing steps in which fruit having a sound pit is torque pitted and fruit having a split pit is spoon pitted. In the apparatus and method the |
| 4171042 |
Fruit positioning apparatus |
October 16, 1979 |
| Apparatus is disclosed for positioning fruit of the drupe type in which the fruit is conveyed along a vertically elongated path from a receiving station upward along the path and then downward along the path to a discharge station with the positioning apparatus being operative to urge |
| 4170660 |
Method for pitting peaches |
October 9, 1979 |
| Method for pitting peaches using a machine which receives a peach by partially cutting it and gripping the stone and while then rotating the peach through a circle engages the peach halves by resilient pneumatic grippers which adapt to the surface of the peach halves. After rotation |
| 4168658 |
Peach pitting machine having apparatus for preventing deformation of the fruit body gripping str |
September 25, 1979 |
| In a peach bisecting and pitting machine in which the fruit is gripped by a deformable gripper during the pitting operation, apparatus is disclosed for sensing the presence or absence of a fruit within such gripper and for preventing the gripping deformation of the gripper when no fruit |
| 4122765 |
Apparatus for pitting fruits or drupe type |
October 31, 1978 |
| Drupe pitting apparatus includes means which receive such a fruit, produce a partial cut in its pulp and thus define two fruit halves adhered to the pit of the fruit and grips the pit, and means for gripping the outer surfaces of the two fruit halves. The gripping means includes a pair o |
| 4109570 |
Apparatus for pitting peaches |
August 29, 1978 |
| Apparatus to pit peaches consisting of a machine which receives a peach by partially cutting it and gripping the stone and while then rotating the peach through a circle engages the peach halves by resilient pneumatic grippers which adapt to the surface of the peach halves. After rotatio |
